Cognitive Illusions of Authorship Reveal Hierarchical Error Detection in Skilled Typists

• Published in: Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 330; no. 6004; pp. 683 - 686
• Main Authors: Logan, Gordon D, Crump, Matthew J.C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Association for the Advancement of Science 29.10.2010; The American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Subjects: Authorship attribution; Biological and medical sciences; Blame; Cognition; Cognition & reasoning; Cognition. Intelligence; Computer Peripherals; Confidence interval; Control loops; dissociation; Errors; Experimental psychology; Experimentation; Feedback; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Illusion; Illusions; Miscellaneous; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychomotor Performance; Questionnaires; Task Performance and Analysis; Theory; Typing; Typing service; Writing; Human; Error detection; Cognition; Typist; Experimental study; Cognitive control

The ability to detect errors is an essential component of cognitive control. Studies of error detection in humans typically use simple tasks and propose single-process theories of detection. We examined error detection by skilled typists and found illusions of authorship that provide evidence for tw...